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Departure
Apply small rudder corrections against a point at the far end of the runway to hold the centreline during the roll.
What happened: The aircraft tracked 26 m off the runway centreline during the ground roll, and flights with this pattern usually carry extra bank, around 13°, into the first climb.
Watch for: Heading indicator: wings level, tracking the runway centreline
Arrival
Begin the flare with progressive back pressure and keep it coming until the sink is arrested, rather than flying it on flat.
What happened: The nose was barely raised in the flare and little of the sink was taken out, flying the aircraft onto the runway. This pattern usually carries through to a firm touchdown with a noticeable sink rate.
Watch for: Vertical speed indicator: a smoothly reducing sink through the normal flare band, not a steady rate into the runway.
Arrive slow and the sink rate at the threshold is already above schedule, the flare is short because there is no energy to extend it, and the touchdown is hard in a way that feels exactly like a late flare. Diagnosing a slow arrival as a late flare is the catastrophic misread: you respond by flaring earlier, which bleeds more speed, which makes the next one worse. The tiebreaker is threshold speed against VRef, not feel. Never diagnose a flare without it.
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The threshold, the flare and the hold-off. The approach that led to it is the stabilisation gates below.
Two stabilised approach gates, each with seven checks, where the approach path is 1,000 ft and 500 ft above the runway. They are the approach's score: the checks passed out of the checks that ran.
At the 1,000 ft gate: speed 54 kt FAST on the reference speed of 136 kt.
The approach, gate by gate
Side view — the last 1,524 m of the approach.
Plan view — the first 1,524 m of the 2,835 m runway, to the same scale as the side view.
The 21 m touchdown sits inside the full-score zone. The 2.42 G arrival is the firm side of smooth.
The rest of the report
Departing from Stuttgart Airport, the Boeing 737-700 began its journey by taxiing from the parking area to the runway, a process that took 4 minutes and covered a distance of 1 nautical mile. As the aircraft lined up on runway 07, the crew initiated the departure roll, and the aircraft lifted off the ground after a takeoff distance of 1,084 meters, which accounted for 36% of the runway length. The liftoff speed was 151 knots, and the local weather conditions were characterized by a temperature of 15°C, a wind speed of 5 knots from 330°, with a crosswind of 5 knots and a tailwind of 1 knot.
As the aircraft climbed to its enroute altitude, it began its ascent from 2,049 feet above sea level to 23,002 feet, an increase of 20,953 feet in 9 minutes, covering a distance of 61 nautical miles. The climb phase was followed by an 11-minute level cruise, during which the aircraft maintained a speed of 23,002 feet above sea level, covering a distance of 82 nautical miles. The crew then initiated the descent phase, which began 2 miles east of Rehau, Germany, and lasted 10 minutes, with the aircraft descending from 23,002 feet to 2,487 feet above sea level, a decrease of 20,514 feet, covering a distance of 68 nautical miles. The final approach to runway 04 at Dresden Airport was initiated from the south-west, with the aircraft maintaining a heading of 42.0° at 4 nautical miles and 1,346 feet above ground level.
The Boeing 737-700 landed on runway 04 at Dresden Airport, with a touchdown distance of 630 meters, which accounted for 25% of the runway length. The touchdown speed was 129 knots, which was slightly below the target speed. The touchdown rate was heavy, at -1,187 feet per minute, and the runway touchdown position was slightly misaligned from the centreline by 5.3 meters. The aircraft then taxied to the parking area, a process that took less than 1 minute and covered a distance of less than 1 nautical mile. The total flight distance was 228 nautical miles, and the flight duration was 38 minutes, with a fuel consumption of -78 kilograms.
The Boeing 737-700 touched down on runway 04 at EDDC Dresden Airport with a threshold height that met expectations. However, the threshold speed was slightly below the target, registering 129 kt. Despite this, the touchdown distance was good at 21 m, and the touchdown speed of 129 kt was also within acceptable limits. Unfortunately, the touchdown rate was very heavy at -1,187 fpm, which may have contributed to the slightly misaligned runway touchdown position, 5.3 m off centreline.
The aircraft's rollout phase was also notable for its slight misalignment from the centreline, with a deviation of 13.1 m. This, combined with the heavy touchdown rate, may have contributed to the overall score of 86.5%. The local weather conditions, with a temperature of 15 °C and a gentle headwind of 2 kt, were not particularly challenging, but the 7 kt crosswind may have played a role in the slight deviations from the centreline.
The total landing distance of 630 m was 25% of the runway length, which is within acceptable limits. Overall, while the landing was not without its issues, the pilot's skills and the aircraft's performance were still able to bring the Boeing 737-700 to a safe stop on the runway.
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